Posted on 13 December 2020 by John Hartz

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World is in danger of missing Paris climate target, summit is warned

Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done

Narendra Modi vowed to cut CO2 by 2047 but made no pledge on coal production. Photograph: John Giles/PA

The world is still not on track to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UK’s business secretary Alok Sharma warned, after a summit of more than 70 world leaders on the climate crisis ended with few new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions.

Sharma said: “[People] will ask ‘Have we done enough to put the world on track to limit warming to 1.5C and protect people and nature from the effects of climate change?’ We must be honest with ourselves – the answer to that is currently no.” 

He said progress had been made at the Climate Ambition Summit, co-hosted by the UK, the UN and France, marking five years since the Paris accord was adopted. More than 80 world leaders including China’s Xi Jinping, the European commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and Pope Francis urged swifter action on the climate crisis.

Click here to access the entire article as originally published on The Guardian website. 

Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done by Fiona Harvey, Environment, The Observer/Guardian, Dec 12, 2020

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